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Accurate image search using the contextual dissimilarity measure

by Hervé Jégou, Cordelia Schmid, Hedi Harzallah, Jakob Verbeek - IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intell , 2010
"... This paper introduces the contextual dissimilarity measure which significantly improves the accuracy of bag-of-features based image search. Our measure takes into account the local distribution of the vectors and iteratively estimates distance update terms in the spirit of Sinkhorn’s scaling algorit ..."
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This paper introduces the contextual dissimilarity measure which significantly improves the accuracy of bag-of-features based image search. Our measure takes into account the local distribution of the vectors and iteratively estimates distance update terms in the spirit of Sinkhorn’s scaling

Accurate Image Search using Local Descriptors into a Compact Image Representation

by Soumia Benkrama, Lynda Zaoui, Christophe Charrier
"... Progress in image retrieval by using low-level features, such as colors, textures and shapes, the performance is still unsatisfied as there are existing gaps between low-level features and high-level semantic concepts. In this work, we present an improved implementation for the bag of visual words a ..."
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quaternion zernike moments (QZM). We compare the results of SIFT and SURF with those of QZM. We propose an indexing method for content based search task that aims to retrieve collection of images and returns a ranked list of objects in response to a query image. Experimental results with the Coil-100

Labeling Images with a Computer Game

by Luis Von Ahn , 2004
"... We introduce a new interactive system: a game that is fun and can be used to create valuable output. When people play the game they help determine the contents of images by providing meaningful labels for them. If the game is played as much as popular online games, we estimate that most images on ..."
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on the Web can be labeled in a few months. Having proper labels associated with each image on the Web would allow for more accurate image search, improve the accessibility of sites (by providing descriptions of images to visually impaired individuals), and help users block inappropriate images. Our system

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

by Heng Li, Richard Durbin - BIOINFORMATICS, 2009, ADVANCE ACCESS , 2009
"... Motivation: The enormous amount of short reads generated by the new DNA sequencing technologies call for the development of fast and accurate read alignment programs. A first generation of hashtable based methods has been developed, including MAQ, which is accurate, feature rich and fast enough to a ..."
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Motivation: The enormous amount of short reads generated by the new DNA sequencing technologies call for the development of fast and accurate read alignment programs. A first generation of hashtable based methods has been developed, including MAQ, which is accurate, feature rich and fast enough

Similarity search in high dimensions via hashing

by Aristides Gionis, Piotr Indyk, Rajeev Motwani , 1999
"... The nearest- or near-neighbor query problems arise in a large variety of database applications, usually in the context of similarity searching. Of late, there has been increasing interest in building search/index structures for performing similarity search over high-dimensional data, e.g., image dat ..."
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The nearest- or near-neighbor query problems arise in a large variety of database applications, usually in the context of similarity searching. Of late, there has been increasing interest in building search/index structures for performing similarity search over high-dimensional data, e.g., image

Photobook: Content-Based Manipulation of Image Databases

by A. Pentland, R. W. Picard, S. Sclaroff , 1995
"... We describe the Photobook system, which is a set of interactive tools for browsing and searching images and image sequences. These query tools differ from those used in standard image databases in that they make direct use of the image content rather than relying on text annotations. Direct search o ..."
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We describe the Photobook system, which is a set of interactive tools for browsing and searching images and image sequences. These query tools differ from those used in standard image databases in that they make direct use of the image content rather than relying on text annotations. Direct search

Imagenet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

by Jia Deng, Wei Dong, Richard Socher, Li-jia Li, Kai Li, Li Fei-fei - In CVPR , 2009
"... The explosion of image data on the Internet has the potential to foster more sophisticated and robust models and algorithms to index, retrieve, organize and interact with images and multimedia data. But exactly how such data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem. We introduce her ..."
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of annotated images organized by the semantic hierarchy of WordNet. This paper offers a detailed analysis of ImageNet in its current state: 12 subtrees with 5247 synsets and 3.2 million images in total. We show that ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and much more accurate than the current image

VisualSEEk: a fully automated content-based image query system

by John R. Smith, Shih-fu Chang , 1996
"... We describe a highly functional prototype system for searching by visual features in an image database. The VisualSEEk system is novel in that the user forms the queries by diagramming spatial arrangements of color regions. The system finds the images that contain the most similar arrangements of ..."
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We describe a highly functional prototype system for searching by visual features in an image database. The VisualSEEk system is novel in that the user forms the queries by diagramming spatial arrangements of color regions. The system finds the images that contain the most similar arrangements

A review of image denoising algorithms, with a new one

by A. Buades, B. Coll, J. M. Morel - SIMUL , 2005
"... The search for efficient image denoising methods is still a valid challenge at the crossing of functional analysis and statistics. In spite of the sophistication of the recently proposed methods, most algorithms have not yet attained a desirable level of applicability. All show an outstanding perf ..."
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The search for efficient image denoising methods is still a valid challenge at the crossing of functional analysis and statistics. In spite of the sophistication of the recently proposed methods, most algorithms have not yet attained a desirable level of applicability. All show an outstanding

Shape and motion from image streams under orthography: a factorization method

by Carlo Tomasi, Takeo Kanade - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION , 1992
"... Inferring scene geometry and camera motion from a stream of images is possible in principle, but is an ill-conditioned problem when the objects are distant with respect to their size. We have developed a factorization method that can overcome this difficulty by recovering shape and motion under orth ..."
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partially filled-in measurement matrix that may result from occlusions or tracking failures. The method gives accurate results, and does not introduce smoothing in either shape or motion. We demonstrate this with a series of experiments on laboratory and outdoor image streams, with and without occlusions.
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